Dear Anastazia, thank you so much for your comment of May 5. I appreciate very much your efforts to understand where I'm coming from and the graciousness of your response. I also understand where you are coming from! I'm aware universal salvation was always a minority position, even in the early church. And I guess you're aware that back then they were all Catholics. Well, not really, there were the Nestorians, etc. But you know what I mean. There were no evangelical protestants. :-) Lots of love to you -
Thanks for the love Anastazia! I don't have the recipes posted but I am a pastry chef for cafe gratitude so many of the recipes are in the "Sweet Gratitude" recipe book! One day I will have a book of my own collections....so be on the lookout! Blessings and Love, Chaya
Thanks for the note. I'm afraid I'm not really in the market for a barter. I don't really want to get rid of the juicer, but would give it up in order to get a blender. Make sense?
The juicer is leftover from my days as a macrobiotic vegan. I did that for about four years back in the nineties.
It's hard for me to check my politics at the door, so to speak, and I have friends on Raw Fu who are politically conservative (I don't have many such friends in real life, so I am growing here), and Christian, and who might not have appreciated my characterization of the Republican party. This is why I deleted my comment.
I understand where you are coming from, and I am deeply grateful that your faith is such a source of sustenance for you. I don't honestly resonate with the language you use to express your faith, even though I'm a practicing Christian (with an MDiv from Yale). My own understanding of the religion, and of the bible, and of Christ's significance, is very different. I believe in the end we are all redeemed. Many of the Church fathers held a notion of apokastasis, or universal salvation, and Gregory of Nyssa took it so far as to proclaim even Satan himself would be saved. And truth is I'm one of those "open minded Christians" who is practicing yoga and using guided meditation and reading Buddhist texts and just soaking up wisdom where I find it.
I'm the first to recognize the raw journey is a spiritual journey, so I expect it might be hard to bracket what is so constitutive of your identity. You don't need to do that. But you are no stranger to the secular world we all inhabit and you can learn to speak that language and contrary to what you're thinking, it would not be a betrayal of who you are but rather an expression of LOVE (to practice some sensitivity around the folks, especially in the United States, for whom explicitly Christian language is off-putting).
Hi Anastazia, I’m glad I could encourage you. I’m also happy to hear that you are feeling clear in your thoughts and that you are working through your battles with your full armor of God on.
It sounds like you are doing a lot of inner searching right now. Sometimes when I go through periods of change it can become very overwhelming to me. I always have the greatest ideas and intentions but I want the instant gratification of it all and then can find myself full of despair and disappointed when I fall short. I have found it very helpful to try and work on very specific goals for myself and have very clear steps that I can manage setting myself up for success. For me it is better to be very successful in a small things that can lead up to the big things rather than feel hopeless unable to obtain my goals leaving me feeling frustrated and hopeless. A good example of this is planning to be 100% raw and then eating cooked food and feeling like a failure. Maybe a better goal would be to drink a green smoothie a day and make one meal a salad, even if it didn’t have raw dressing on it. Maybe just cut out all sugar or all flour or stop eating at a certain time at night. Taking it one step at a time. I think far too often people fail at being 100% raw and then tailspin into overeating. That could be why you are experiencing some of the yo-yo effects.
I will pray for you Anastazia. I fully believe in the power of prayer and I know all things are possible.
I am right now feeling the need to purge and get really organized around here. I am not really a pack rat and I don’t live in a mass of clutter. I keep a tidy house but I feel like it is almost sinful the amount of stuff we have and don’t use. It has been on my mind for weeks now and I am taking steps to rid myself of his problem. If I look at it all at once it is too big of a problem for me and much easier to just forget about it, it is not like it is something noticeable to the outside world and I know what a big mess I will have to make to do it correctly. What I am doing is a couple of drawers and closets a day and that is not easy for me. I am more the kind of person that bites off more than I can chew and stays up for days on end until it is all finished regretting that I even started the project some of the time. It is hard for me to let some things go, thinking what I want or need them in the future and I think of all the money my possessions have cost me. I just know I want to feel more free and keep things more simple, just like with the weight it comes down to releasing things that don’t suit us anymore. Nike really knows what they are taking about when they say “Just Do It!”
I hope you have a good day and find yourself in peace.
Love,
Ce
Hi Anastazia!
When I click on your page my kids always say it is Anastazia’s page, they love the music and start to sing along!
I read you post and I’m sorry you are struggling right now. It is hard I think for all of us to know what we need to do, to find something that works for us and then fight ourselves to do what we know in our heart and mind works for each of us. You know you have made some great improvements in your diet and have felt better because of it, but you want more, you deserve more and know how to get more. I felt the same way this winter. I made excuses and justified the poor choices I made. I fought an inner battle that spiralled and made me feel hopeless and like a total failure. I knew I wanted to break free of the chains that held me and I knew that only I could do it but I sat as if I was helpless giving up and giving in more time than not.
I wish I knew what the magic bullet was for me. I wish I knew what it was that clicked in me because if I could package it I could make a fortune. One day I just woke up and had it. I didn’t talk about it with anyone to start with but I did write about it. I became obsessed in my writing and journal, I wrote to myself and logged every bit I put into my mouth. I was my own inspiration, I set up mini daily goals and then weekly. I included very doable list of things I wanted to accomplish. It was like I went outside of myself and became my own coach. It was very time consuming and did take a lot of work but I fuelled my journey by the great things I was reaping.
I slacked off in my writing for a couple of weeks and again I started to feel like I was not making progress, not moving forward at the same rate as before. I had become lazy and again was not making myself my priority. I began writing again and not giving myself an inch in any area of my life and again I have claimed the control that I felt was threatening to slip away.
I hope you find your way too Anastazia, you know it is possible. You know you have the strength and you know that you can do it. I am pulling for you, if there is anything I can do help please let me know.
Love,
Ce
Hi Anastazia!
I left you a note the same time you left me one! Thank you for the compliment on the picture. Tony took it last week and then when he saw me on raw fu he asked if he could please take off my passport photo! Funny guy. I am feeling very healthy and very good. I did my juice feast or fast for 30 days and then stopped for a week between our Easter and Greek Orthodox Easter. I ate only raw during my week break and made some really delicious thing that we all enjoyed. I do feel like I stopped my juice too early though and as of Monday I am back on liquids. I don’t know what it is, it is really hard to define but I just feel so much more in control on juice only and it is so easy to do. When I eat raw I tend to over do it on nuts and with the juice I don’t have to worry about that. I just feel so free on it and love it. I am now on day 3 and it is smooth sailing. I plan right now to do it for another 30 days and then see how I am feeling; Dory is also doing it with me so it is fun to have a partner.
We are on our final stretch of school here. We are caught up in most thing things. We have done so many side projects in history that we are a little behind on our book and Luke is a bit behind on his US History but I’m sure we will be caught up by the end of the year. We are going to the Villa again this year on June 13 and we want to be done with everything by then! After that the kids have camps and Luke is going on a mission trip and I just want to spend the summer enjoying all this country has to offer and take a good long vacation with Tony and the kids, we are still not sure where we are going. We do know we want to do a few mini trips to different islands we always have so much fun island hopping here!.
Spring has finally come to Greece and we have been working in the yard and gardens getting things cleaned up and weed free after the very long wet winter. I don’t have a vegetable garden here; our yard is just not set up for it. The only place I could I put one would be the basket ball court and the kids would not like that at all! I do have some planters with veggies. I have a tomato plant that is looking very happy with little buds all over it and I always grow a lot of herbs. I have basil, dill, parsley and rosemary. This weekend I plan to plant even more. It is finally getting warm enough to get my flower beds done too and fill planters with sweet smelling gardenias and lots of color!
I’m happy to hear you are feeling good and getting your sleep back to normal. That makes a huge difference!
Oh good! Glad to hear you're going to plant a garden and that my pix help inspire that urge. Good thing I worked for several hours out there yesterday cause we woke up to an inch of snow this morning! Would you like me to send you some kale seeds? I have a bunch from seed I've saved last year....its a mix of tuscan and curly kale. Let me know I'd be glad to contribute to your garden initiative!
Aw, THANK YOU! Actually the weekend was very busy! :) The kids had a wonderful time though! It was our first time celebrating Easter with eggs and baskets. Thank you for keeping us all in your prayers!!!!!!!!!!! I really can't wait to meet my newest daughter ! :) I'll keep you posted!
Thanks ana. But what is the new challenge about is it the 100 day raw food challenge is that what you're talking about? oh one more thing do people actually use the chat room I went on there a few times for the party and topic night thing they posted and there was no one there:O(
Hey there! How are you? So sorry for not checking in sooner, but life has been CRAZY!!!!! Do you need more flax?? Let me know, and we can work it out I am certain! Hope you and Hannah are doing well and spring has come to you, I am trying SO hard to get back to more raw and having a hard time...$ is a bit tight at the moment - like everyone else I would guess - but trying to think and feel my way out of that box and quickly for all of our sakes! Keep in touch, Much Love, Michelle
I saw your post regarding the link to Carmella’s blog. Here is the correct link: http://www.thesunnyrawkitchen.blogspot.com/
She also has a forum on Raw Freedom Community (http://www.rawfreedomcommunity.info/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=3) that has lots of recipes too. Lots of good stuff.
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Thanks for the note. I'm afraid I'm not really in the market for a barter. I don't really want to get rid of the juicer, but would give it up in order to get a blender. Make sense?
The juicer is leftover from my days as a macrobiotic vegan. I did that for about four years back in the nineties.
I've got to run, busy day. Nice to meet you!
It's hard for me to check my politics at the door, so to speak, and I have friends on Raw Fu who are politically conservative (I don't have many such friends in real life, so I am growing here), and Christian, and who might not have appreciated my characterization of the Republican party. This is why I deleted my comment.
I understand where you are coming from, and I am deeply grateful that your faith is such a source of sustenance for you. I don't honestly resonate with the language you use to express your faith, even though I'm a practicing Christian (with an MDiv from Yale). My own understanding of the religion, and of the bible, and of Christ's significance, is very different. I believe in the end we are all redeemed. Many of the Church fathers held a notion of apokastasis, or universal salvation, and Gregory of Nyssa took it so far as to proclaim even Satan himself would be saved. And truth is I'm one of those "open minded Christians" who is practicing yoga and using guided meditation and reading Buddhist texts and just soaking up wisdom where I find it.
I'm the first to recognize the raw journey is a spiritual journey, so I expect it might be hard to bracket what is so constitutive of your identity. You don't need to do that. But you are no stranger to the secular world we all inhabit and you can learn to speak that language and contrary to what you're thinking, it would not be a betrayal of who you are but rather an expression of LOVE (to practice some sensitivity around the folks, especially in the United States, for whom explicitly Christian language is off-putting).
Blessings,
GD
It sounds like you are doing a lot of inner searching right now. Sometimes when I go through periods of change it can become very overwhelming to me. I always have the greatest ideas and intentions but I want the instant gratification of it all and then can find myself full of despair and disappointed when I fall short. I have found it very helpful to try and work on very specific goals for myself and have very clear steps that I can manage setting myself up for success. For me it is better to be very successful in a small things that can lead up to the big things rather than feel hopeless unable to obtain my goals leaving me feeling frustrated and hopeless. A good example of this is planning to be 100% raw and then eating cooked food and feeling like a failure. Maybe a better goal would be to drink a green smoothie a day and make one meal a salad, even if it didn’t have raw dressing on it. Maybe just cut out all sugar or all flour or stop eating at a certain time at night. Taking it one step at a time. I think far too often people fail at being 100% raw and then tailspin into overeating. That could be why you are experiencing some of the yo-yo effects.
I will pray for you Anastazia. I fully believe in the power of prayer and I know all things are possible.
I am right now feeling the need to purge and get really organized around here. I am not really a pack rat and I don’t live in a mass of clutter. I keep a tidy house but I feel like it is almost sinful the amount of stuff we have and don’t use. It has been on my mind for weeks now and I am taking steps to rid myself of his problem. If I look at it all at once it is too big of a problem for me and much easier to just forget about it, it is not like it is something noticeable to the outside world and I know what a big mess I will have to make to do it correctly. What I am doing is a couple of drawers and closets a day and that is not easy for me. I am more the kind of person that bites off more than I can chew and stays up for days on end until it is all finished regretting that I even started the project some of the time. It is hard for me to let some things go, thinking what I want or need them in the future and I think of all the money my possessions have cost me. I just know I want to feel more free and keep things more simple, just like with the weight it comes down to releasing things that don’t suit us anymore. Nike really knows what they are taking about when they say “Just Do It!”
I hope you have a good day and find yourself in peace.
Love,
Ce
When I click on your page my kids always say it is Anastazia’s page, they love the music and start to sing along!
I read you post and I’m sorry you are struggling right now. It is hard I think for all of us to know what we need to do, to find something that works for us and then fight ourselves to do what we know in our heart and mind works for each of us. You know you have made some great improvements in your diet and have felt better because of it, but you want more, you deserve more and know how to get more. I felt the same way this winter. I made excuses and justified the poor choices I made. I fought an inner battle that spiralled and made me feel hopeless and like a total failure. I knew I wanted to break free of the chains that held me and I knew that only I could do it but I sat as if I was helpless giving up and giving in more time than not.
I wish I knew what the magic bullet was for me. I wish I knew what it was that clicked in me because if I could package it I could make a fortune. One day I just woke up and had it. I didn’t talk about it with anyone to start with but I did write about it. I became obsessed in my writing and journal, I wrote to myself and logged every bit I put into my mouth. I was my own inspiration, I set up mini daily goals and then weekly. I included very doable list of things I wanted to accomplish. It was like I went outside of myself and became my own coach. It was very time consuming and did take a lot of work but I fuelled my journey by the great things I was reaping.
I slacked off in my writing for a couple of weeks and again I started to feel like I was not making progress, not moving forward at the same rate as before. I had become lazy and again was not making myself my priority. I began writing again and not giving myself an inch in any area of my life and again I have claimed the control that I felt was threatening to slip away.
I hope you find your way too Anastazia, you know it is possible. You know you have the strength and you know that you can do it. I am pulling for you, if there is anything I can do help please let me know.
Love,
Ce
I left you a note the same time you left me one! Thank you for the compliment on the picture. Tony took it last week and then when he saw me on raw fu he asked if he could please take off my passport photo! Funny guy. I am feeling very healthy and very good. I did my juice feast or fast for 30 days and then stopped for a week between our Easter and Greek Orthodox Easter. I ate only raw during my week break and made some really delicious thing that we all enjoyed. I do feel like I stopped my juice too early though and as of Monday I am back on liquids. I don’t know what it is, it is really hard to define but I just feel so much more in control on juice only and it is so easy to do. When I eat raw I tend to over do it on nuts and with the juice I don’t have to worry about that. I just feel so free on it and love it. I am now on day 3 and it is smooth sailing. I plan right now to do it for another 30 days and then see how I am feeling; Dory is also doing it with me so it is fun to have a partner.
We are on our final stretch of school here. We are caught up in most thing things. We have done so many side projects in history that we are a little behind on our book and Luke is a bit behind on his US History but I’m sure we will be caught up by the end of the year. We are going to the Villa again this year on June 13 and we want to be done with everything by then! After that the kids have camps and Luke is going on a mission trip and I just want to spend the summer enjoying all this country has to offer and take a good long vacation with Tony and the kids, we are still not sure where we are going. We do know we want to do a few mini trips to different islands we always have so much fun island hopping here!.
Spring has finally come to Greece and we have been working in the yard and gardens getting things cleaned up and weed free after the very long wet winter. I don’t have a vegetable garden here; our yard is just not set up for it. The only place I could I put one would be the basket ball court and the kids would not like that at all! I do have some planters with veggies. I have a tomato plant that is looking very happy with little buds all over it and I always grow a lot of herbs. I have basil, dill, parsley and rosemary. This weekend I plan to plant even more. It is finally getting warm enough to get my flower beds done too and fill planters with sweet smelling gardenias and lots of color!
I’m happy to hear you are feeling good and getting your sleep back to normal. That makes a huge difference!
LMAO !!! That was too funny and I so needed a laugh THANKS! yep I LOVEEEE play.I hope you had a wonderful weekend as well!
Hope you're feeling better!!
Oh and Happy Early Birthday!!!
I saw your post regarding the link to Carmella’s blog. Here is the correct link: http://www.thesunnyrawkitchen.blogspot.com/
She also has a forum on Raw Freedom Community (http://www.rawfreedomcommunity.info/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=3) that has lots of recipes too. Lots of good stuff.
Enjoy,
Metta
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